The dynamic duo share directorial credit on the video for the latest single from 0PN, a haunting ballad called Lost But Never Alone. Released yesterday, it's a swan dive into a vortex of kitschy videotaped pastiche, and a radical departure from whatever we may have come to think of as the signature Safdie style.
Instead of street-level photography wending around corners and into dingy urban interiors, the Safdies have adopted a retro-mishmash aesthetic harkening back to the era of miniDV home movies and low-budget local access TV.
The song itself hews close to the sound of the Safdie albums, sparsely punctuated as it is by distorted guitar and warm buzzes of synth. The solo at the end shreds harder than the average 0PN track, too, a release of pent-up frustration from a disaffected youth.
